Question

What is 'grandsire cut in alabaster? What role would the speaker like to play. Of merchant of Venic

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

Gratiano - A friend of Bassanio's who accompanies him to Belmont. A coarse and garrulous young man, Gratiano is Shylock's most vocal and insulting critic during the trial. While Bassanio courts Portia, Gratiano falls in love with and eventually weds Portia's lady-in-waiting, Nerissa.

Answer 2

Explanation:

gratiano advises antonio not to be melancholic in nature and to be merryalso he tells him not to sit idle and to engage himself in his interestsso he is compared to his grandsire cut in alabaster(an idle or old man).also the elizabethians thought that jaundice was caused by the melancholic(in this case) influence of mind over body so gratiano says that under melancholic  influence of mind over body antonio is likely to be infected by jaundice